The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-24

II really beg your pardon, sir. 1t
was very stupid of me. / sincerely
hope | have not injured you, sir.
"Only by not recognizing me, pro-
fessor. Nothing inficts SO deep an in.
jury as to get the cut direct from
persons old friend, or by one who was
once friend"
"Bless me-, he said, sis this you? /
thought you were thousands of miles
away. Curious that I should run
against you in London. y
mo, professor, the curious thing is
that you don't run against every body
that happens to be in London"
The last time I walked home
with the professor, dense fog hung
over London. The air was cold and
of course damp. When we entered
| the professors rooms he lit the gas
and then applied the match to the neat
pile of fuel that was heaped up all
ready for lighting. The dense smoke,
instead of going up the chimney as all
well-regulated smoke should do. poured
forth into the room. They don't have
the sheet-iron contrivances for placing
over ire-places in England that we
have in America; at least / never saw
one there. The substitute is generally
an open newspaper held over half the
orifice, and then the flame usually con-
sents to 60 up the chimney and burn
the paper if it can. | tried the news
paper dodge, but it didn't work. The
room was filled with smoke. The pro-
fessor threw open the doors but still
the smoke poured into the apartments.
Good gracious" cried; whats to
be done?"
'Tm sure I do not know" answered
the coughing professor. ring the bell
if you can find it
| CROPPED around for the bell-handle
and pulled it. The landlady's servant
girl came running up the stair. She
took in the situation at glance. Seiz-
ing the newspaper that [ had been ex-
perimenting with she twisted it up and
set fire to the loose end of it. This
paper torch she thrust up into the
chimney. For moment the flame
came down. The next is was roaring
cheerfully up the fue. The flame of
wood and coal followed right merrily.
The girl then pulled down the top sash
of the window and pushed up the bot
tom one. and in few moments the
room was free from smoke and the
fire burning as brightly as it ought to
do on such an evening. Meanwhile
the learned professor and myself had
been standing in the hall with our
overcoats on, coughing and trying to
clear our Threats from London fog and
smoke.
When we sat down I said to the pro-
fessor: "Well, old man, that was beau
tiful object lesson for you."
certainly. An object lesson for
both OF us, for, if the smoke has not
obscured my mental vision, you were
as helpless as Twas"
ooh, you can't shove off the respon-
sibility on my shoulders You can't
even get them to share the responsible
ity l never published book on
areostatics OF areodynamics. I am not
an authority on fluids except such as
can be bought for so much glass. No,
sir. There you sit the most noted man
on those subjects in--''
ooh, no. no." protested the profess
sor, ''not the most notedr'
"Don't interrupt the lecture. There
you sit, repeat, an authority on all
such subjects. You come to your room
with friend. 1t happens that there is
in the chimney a column of air that is
more than usually cold, damp and
heavy. Now, if one of your students
| asked you how that cold column of air
was to be got out of that chimney I
presume you would tell him to go on
the roof with fifty dollar air pump,
put it on the chimney and exhaust the
-"
'Now you are not fair. I would of
course inform him that the heating of
the column would cause it to ascend.
"Oh, you 0ould, would you? Then
you knew all the time what the proper
thing was, and you saw your friend
gasping in the last stages of strangu-
lation, and yet you stood there and
never offered the information neces-
sary at the moment Because had
not paid the college fees 1 presume.
Professor, | did not think that of you. :"
Really, sir" said the professor,
''you are very unfair--I might even
say unjust. | have the knowledge as
you say, but at the moment the appli-
cation of it did not occur to me.''
''That's it exactly. That's your OBJ
ject lesson. There you stood choked
with knowledge and smoke not know
ing what to do, and an ignorant girl
who knows nothing of areostatics, or
areodynamics or areo-any thing but
the area she came from, Immediately
does the right thing and the scientific
thing. knowledge, as my friend
Bunsby used to say, lies in the appli-
cation on it.. )"
"Your friend Bunsby was right.
Americans are unexcelled in the appli-
cation of scientific principles to prac-
tical uses. l presume your friend
Bunsby was an Americana LuEe
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